Todays Google Doodle :-)

Charles Perrault, author of Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella was born 388 years ago, and has been commemorated with a Google Doodle.
Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, and was a lawyer before turning his hand to the written word.
Charles Perrault (1628-1703)
Charles Perrault (1628-1703)
While the Brothers Grimm are widely credited with creating the fairy tale as we know it, Perrault actually wrote stories called Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, La Belle au bois dormant and Cendrillon a full 200 years before.
In 1695, aged 67, he wrote Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals, a series of moral tales designed to prompt the reader to reflect on the dilemmas presented to the protagonist, which were well-known from folklore even then.
The volume contained the story now known as Mother Goose, alongside perrenially recognised titles such as Puss in Boots, Blue Beard and Cinderella, and less famous stories Ricky of the Tuft and Little Thumb.

The book was enormously successful, and was eventually translated into English in 1729 by Robert Samber.
However, readers may be shocked to discover that Perrault's original tales have lost much of their grisly detail today.
His version of Little Red Riding Hood, for example, made it more explicitly obvious that the 'wolf' is a man intent on preying on young girls who wander alone in woods.

"From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers, And it is not an unheard thing if the Wolf is thereby provided with his dinner," he wrote.
"I say Wolf, for all wolves are not of the same sort; there is one kind with an amenable disposition – neither noisy, nor hateful, nor angry, but tame, obliging and gentle, following the young maids in the streets, even into their homes. Alas! Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous!"
Stories or Tales from Times Past
La belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood)
Le petit chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood)
La Barbe bleüe (Blue Beard)
Le Maistre Chat, ou le Chat Botté (The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots)
Les Fées (The Fairies)
Cendrillon, ou la petite pantoufle de verre (Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper)
Riquet à la Houppe (Ricky of the Tuft)
Le petit Pouçet (Little Thumb)
Sleeping Beauty
The version of Sleeping Beauty we know now is a combination of a tale by Perrault (which in turn was based on older stories dating back to the 14th century) and the Grimm Brothers's Briar Rose, which was an oral version of Perrault's.
Confusing? It can be. Disney's 1959 film sweeps away the darker elements of the Sleeping Beauty stories – and they can be very dark – in favour of Princess Aurora, her three fairy godmothers, and the vengeful fairy Maleficent, who uses an enchanted spindle to put the princess into a deep sleep.
Yet another reason to avoid doing your own sewing.
• The 20 best fairy tale movies
In 2011, a version of Sleeping Beauty, directed by Julia Leigh, harked back to Perrault's original tale. Emily Browning played a cash-strapped student who takes a job at a brothel.

She strips naked and is drugged into a stupor, before equally naked old men pay to climb into bed with her.

The story of Maleficent was turned into a film in 2014 with Angelina Jolie in the title role. The character's wickedness is limited to a fit of rage at Princess Aurora's christening, for which she spends much of this film trying to make amends.

Cinderella
Only five years after the Lumière brothers recorded what is widely considered as the first film ever made, French director Georges Méliès made the first cinematic contribution to the Cinderella dynasty in 1899

Based on Perrault’s story it contains all of the classic plot points: a fairy godmother who turns Cinderella's rags into a beautiful dress and a pumpkin into a coach, the tick of time, and a charming Prince. At the time, the six-minute film was considered a complete failure – not so anymore.
Disney's latest film of Cinderella, directed by Kenneth Branagh, came out in cinemas last year.

In this version of the fairy tale, Lily James and Richard Madden come together over a lost slipper, while Cate Blanchett plays a perfectly evil Lady Tremaine.
Branagh and screenwriter Chris Weitz stick with almost doggedly traditionalist reverence to Disney’s 1950 animated version, with just a few tactful innovations here and there.
Bluebeard
In 1901, Méliès made a film based on Perrault's Bluebeard, the story of a maniacal aristocrat with a penchant for slaying his young wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors.
In 2010, the tale was adapted for film by French novelist and director Catherine Breillat, with Dominique Thomas as Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard).

Born on May 6, 1856, Freud revolutionized the way we understand the mind, although his approach has generally been abandoned by psychiatrists.

Freud famously held sexuality to be at the root of most pathologies of the human brain, placing much emphasis on the Oedipus complex. He also developed the idea of the subconscious mind, which Google picks up on for his birthday doodle.

“A dimpled leather couch might be the typical visual associated with Freud and other therapists, but Doodler Kevin Laughlin instead created this iceberg,” Google explains. “With a vast hidden base, the iceberg references the murky depths of the unconscious mind. More importantly, the design draws our eye to the horizon, reminding us how the genius of Freud’s practice rests in the space between doctor and patient, reader and text, human and world.”

from http://heavy.com/news/2016/05/yuri-kochiyama-google-doodle-birthday-photos-video-pictures-bio/

1. She Was Born in California & Spent 2 Years in an Internment Camp During World War II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApXSv6845cU

Her father was taken into custody shortly after the Pearl Harbor attacks because he was suspected of being a national security threat, according to the New York Times. He was ill, and was held in federal prison. He died a day after he was released from prison on January 20, 1942.

After his death, Kochiyama, her mother and brother were then taken into the Santa Anita Assembly Center, where they were held for several months, according to the Times. They were then moved to an internment camp in Jerome, Arkansas.

Kochiyama was moved in 1944 to help run a USO center for soldiers in Mississippi, according to the Los Angeles Times. It was there where she met her husband, Bill Kochiyama, who was in the U.S. Army as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was made up of mainly Japanese American soldiers.

The couple married in 1946 and moved to Harlem, New York, after the war. They had six children together.

2. She Became an Activist Alongside Malcolm X & Held Him in Her Arms After He Was Shot in 1965

After moving to Harlem, New York, Yuri Kochiyama became a civil rights activist, according to a biography posted by her family on the Facebook page “Remembering Yuri Kochiyama.”

“Yuri’s activism started in Harlem i the early 1960’s, where she participated in the Harlem Freedom Schools, and later, the African American, Asian American and Third World movements for civil and human rights and in the opposition against the Vietnam War,” her family said.

Kochiyama met Malcolm X in 1963 and they became friends, working alongside each other in the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

She talked about meeting Malcolm X in an interview with Democracy Now! in 2008:

I felt so bad that I wasn’t black, that this should be just a black thing. But the more I see them all so happily shaking his hands and Malcolm so happy, I said, “Gosh darn it, I’m going to try to meet him somehow.” And so, I kept getting closer, and I said, “If he looks up once, I’m going to run over there and see if I could shake his hand.” And so, that’s what I did.

There was a time where — maybe he didn’t look up, but I may have just thought he did or wished he did. And so, then I yelled and said, “Malcolm, can I shake your hands, too?” because all these young people were. And he said “What for?” And I didn’t know at first what to say. “What for?” I said, “Because what you’re doing for your people.” And he said, “And what am I doing for my people?” Now, I thought, “What would I say to that?” And so I said, “You’re giving directions.” And then, he just changed and said — he came out of the center of that, you know, where everybody was there, came out and he stuck his hands out. So I ran and grabbed it. I couldn’t believe that I was shaking Malcolm X’s hand.

Kochiyama was with Malcolm X when he was assassinated, and held him after he had been shot.

Her family says she worked “for racial justice and human rights. Over the course of her life, Yuri was actively involved in various movements for ethnic studies, redress and reparations for Japanese Americans, African Americans and Native Americans, political prisoners’ rights, Puerto Rican independence and many other struggles.”

Kochiyama told the Los Angeles Times she “picked up his head and just put it on my lap. I said, ‘Please, Malcolm … stay alive.'”

3. She Took Over the Statute of Liberty With a Group of Puerto Ricans in 1977


Kochiyama was among a group of Puerto Ricans and other activists who took over the Statue of Liberty in 1977 in a protest to draw attention to the fight for Puerto Rican independence, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

They demanded the release of five Puerto Rican nationalists convicted of attempted murder. Kochiyama and her cohorts occupied the monument for nine hours and then gave up peacefully.

“An injury or injustice to one is an injury and injustice to all,” she said in 2002.

Her biographer, Diane Fujino, told the San Francisco Chronicle, “To Yuri, one of the major problems in society is polarization; the other is racism. Opposing polarization takes on greater significance when one believes, as does Yuri, that social change comes through collective action.”

She suffered a stroke in 1997 and moved to Oakland to be closer to her children. She fought for prisoners’ rights in her later years.

“Do you know there are 2 million people in prison in America?” she said during a speech in 2005. “That’s almost a country. The treatment of prisoners is so bad that Abu Ghraib has nothing on places like Corcoran and San Quentin.”

4. She Helped Japanese Americans Fight for & Receive Reparations

Kochiyama and her husband were among the Japanese Americans to fight for reparations and a government apology for the way they were treated during World War II.

Their efforts helped lead to Congressional approval of a plan to pay $20,000 to the 60,000 surviving internees in 1988, the New York Times reported.

“Yuri leaves behind a legacy of courage and strength, and her lifelong passion for justice and dedication to civil rights continue to inspire young AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) advocates today,” said Kiran Ahuja, executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in 2014. “I am moved by her leadership and her unwavering commitment to building coalitions to improve the quality of life and opportunities for all Americans, regardless of background. … The contributions of Yuri Kochiyama and other civil rights champions inspire us to ensure that all Americans reach their fullest potential regardless of who they are or where they come from.”

5. She Was Survived by Her 4 Living Children, Several Grandchildren & Great-Grandchildren

Kochiyama died in her sleep in 2014, her family said. She was survived by her four living children, Audee, Eddie, Jimmy and Tommy, along with their spouses, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Her husband died in 1993. She had another son, Billy, who died in the 1970s, and a daughter, Aichi, who died in 1989.

“Life-long activist Yuri Kochiyama passed away peacefully in her sleep in Berkeley, California on the morning of Sunday, June 1 at the age of 93. Over a span of more than 50 years, Yuri worked tirelessly for social and political change through her activism in support of social justice and civil and human rights movements,” her family said in a statement.